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spurs. Abdomen pale green above, white beneath. Forewing ample, 
costal margin slightly more arched than in the type species ; C remote 
from SC, SC 1 from cell, strongly divergent, so as to anastomose with C, 
SC 2 - 5 from just before It 1 , DC 1 becoming moderately oblique, M 1 remote 
from R 3 ; green, less vivid and more bluish than in beryllaria, extreme 
costal edge whitish-ochreous ; first line obsolescent, faintly traceable (in 
posterior half only), apparently a little curved, to hind margin at nearly 
two-fifths; postmedian whitish, parallel with termen, at 3*5 mm. there- 
from, distinct from hind margin to R 3 , then gradually fading out ; fringe 
slightly paler green. Hindwing with C anastomosing to one-half cell, 
SC 2 very short-stalked, M 1 remote from R 3 ; only the postmedian line 
continued, here median, very slightly curved. Underside paler green, 
unmarked, costal edge of forewing whitish-ochreous. 
Barberton, Transvaal, 6th January, 1911. Since drawing up this 
description I have seen a <J from Umkomaas, Natal, 22nd January, 1914, 
also collected by Mr. Janse ; smaller than the $, otherwise quite agreeing. 
Differs from typical (Palaearctic) Xenochlorodes in the still more 
minute palpus, apparent absence of tongue, shorter anastomosis of C of 
hindwing, and wide separation of M 1 of both wings. 
Acidaliastis bicurvifera, n. sp. (PL XX Y, Fig. 8). 
5, 21 mm. Face light brown. Vertex whitish-brown. Thorax and 
abdomen whitish, the former more brown anteriorly. Foreleg brown, with 
the coxa more reddish. Forewing with apex acute, termen oblique, straight 
anteriorly, curved posteriorly ; light brown, more ochreous along the costal 
margin ; two broad, curved, very oblique white lines, the distal from close 
to apex to before two-thirds hind margin, the proximal commencing near 
the disfcal, almost parallel with it, but slightly more oblique still, edged 
with slightly darker (more reddish) brown on their approximated sides ; 
a terminal line of this same slightly reddish brown ; fringe white. Hind- 
wing white, with a brown terminal line. Forewing beneath brown 
anteriorly, whitish posteriorly, the distal line of upperside indicated. 
Pretoria, 19th February, 1914. 
Evidently akin to curvilinea Prout, which — on the discovery that the 
hindtibia had terminal spurs only — I removed to Allochrostes (Lep. Cat., 
xiv, 167), but which, I suppose, should be regarded as a comparatively 
broad-winged green Acidaliastis. Besides the quite different colour, the 
presence of a second line on the forewing distinguishes bicurvifera. 
Acidalia straminea Feld. 
I find that melliflua Warr. (Nov. Zool. IV, 52, Craspedia) is an 
aberration of straminea Feld. (Reise Novara, Lep. Het. t. 128, L 33) with 
the discal blotches wanting and that my ab. sumpla (Ann. Transv. Mus., 
Ill, 198) and ab. discata (Ann. S. Afric. Mus., X, 484) are virtually 
synonyms of name-typical straminea, although these forms vary among 
themselves as to the exact extent and distribution of the blotches. 
Acidalia pertinax, n. sp. (PI. XXY, Fig. 9). 
$, 20-21 mm. Face brownish-black, with lower extremity white. 
Palpus dark above, whitish beneath. Antennal ciliation in $ rather longer 
